The St. Thomas Law Review is proud to announce our upcoming symposium, Bush v. Gore: A Decade Later. This event will be held on our campus on November 12-13, 2010. The symposium will examine the election from the viewpoint of the judiciary, attorneys who participated in the litigation, administrators and legal scholars. Professor Nathaniel Persily of Columbia Law School will be moderating the various discussion panels. Professor Persily and Professor Murray Greenberg have been instrumental in planning a symposium that will present a comprehensive review of the 2000 election. A detailed schedule of events will be available shortly. Admission is complimentary for STU faculty and students, admission information for all others will be available soon. Please contact the Law Review office at lawrev@stu.edu if you have any questions.

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By Nancy J. Knauer - James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University

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